When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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